Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-22


q train, lost a leg aud bad TO be shot.
liz takes seven and a hall columns Oh a
Tecumseh paper to publish the delinquent Tax
list.
QSeversl arrests were made ut Aurora Mon.
day BY the sheriff, for selling liqlor without a
license.
The Union Pacidc company is putting "
new telegraph poles aloug its entire line In
Nebraska.
John T. Watson, Of the Nebraska City
packing house company, died Monday from
an apopieciic lit.
Work on The s12, coo court house at Beaver
City, FIrnss county, has been temporarily
stopped by an injunction.
Rumor has 1t that the Office OF the Free
Lance will soon be removed from Beatrice TO
Lincoln, and thereafter the paper Will be is
sueo In that city.
A sneak thief visited the Adventists camp
at Grand Island Monday evening and while
the services were 10 progress stole from one
OF the small tents q valise belonging To one
II the lady missionaries. The valise con-
tanned q teachers Biolc, new and cost nine
dollars, and soUe missionary tracts.
NJ. VI. Smith, a Washington county farmer,
is the prize pumpkin raiser. On seven
eightbs Of an acre he Matched twenty-five tons
OF pot iron pumpkins and Chill squashes,
which nctted Sis. In addition the potatoes
raised Oh the patch sold for $50. The
squashes ranged from $50 to 200 pounds.
Senator Van Wyck's country home, six
miles from Nebraska City, has been improved
and beautiHed during the summer, aud II
now one Of the finest In tbs state. The gen
eral extends an invitation to the railroad
organs to photograph the place, SOW then
broadcast, and make all the capital possible
out OF the business.
There is a well founded TIL mol In circula
ton at Nebraska City that with the couple
ton Of the Chicago, Burlington and Quinc'
bridge, the company will build a line from thai
city TO Sterling and from the latter place &c
Dewitt, there to make connection with their
own line. 1t will save nearly sixty miles and
the grade 10 easy.
Thursday Prof. Feote, Of the high school
at Nebraska City, choked a ffteen-year-oid
son Of Rev. d. Green for whispering In school,
and was made to desist by the other pupils,
Friday morning Prot. Foote'S eGgy was
found hanging FROM the school door transom
with a placard informing him that there was
more than one way Of teaching. The affair
has caused some excitement.
The Hastings News, the bright morning
paper which was started there recently, has
suspended publication. The paper wac ably
conducted, took the Associated press dis
patches and was worthy Of support, but II
failed to secure enough patronage to warran,
the continuance of the enterprise. La an
nouncing the Suspension the publishers say
that the plant will at once be removed &c
some other point.
The Beatrice Democrat Is convinced that
the burning Of the Darlington bridge, nine
miles west OF Lircoln, Wednesday night, was
the work of tiends, who deliher lteIy planned 8
repetition Of the Chatsworth horror. The fir,
was discovered by a farmers daughter at II
O'Clock. The farmer started for the fire ant
saw the incendiaries disappear in the darkness
Tie bridge had been saturated with coal OF
and fred. Having no implements TO fight thu
fire the farmer confined his efforts to faggins
the approaching passenger trains and pre-
venting a catastrophe.
Miss LIZ e Platter, Of Cortland, aged nine
teen, committed suicide Thursday afteruoCI
by taking poison. She has since last spring
with her brother, been keeping house for th'
Cooper boys, who own a large farm SIX miles
south Of Cortland. Thursday afternoon ,bey
went to work, leaving her In good health anC
spirits, and In the evening to fed her a corpse
They at once telegraphed the coroner
The deceased VAS a bright, intelligent young
lady, and no one can account for the rast
act. The inquest may, however, bring some
thing to light.
John II Ames, who has been east perfect
ing arrangements for the construction Of the
cable line street railway al Lincoln, has just
returned, after negotiating a loan OF 5000,
600 with the American Trust company Of New
York. The cable company has made a change
IA its plans which will not be viewed With
pleasure by those citizens of the capital wko
have been anxious 20 gee a metropolitan In.
s~titution like q cable line put into operation.
The company has decided to use electricity In
stead Of a steam cab.e. The storage battery
motor will be used, and the electricity will be-
furnished by a 40c-horse power engine. The
proposed route Of the line will not be
changed.
A fellow, who calls himself Hohl Stroll,
was arrested last week in the sand hills Of the
Loup county for horse stealing and taken to
Aurora by Deputy Sheriff Whitesides. The
horse was stolen near Harvard, In Clay coun.
ty. Stroll has turned states evidence and
implicated two pals, and the three together
stole Two or more horses In Hamilton county.
Officers from there Sc row after the remain
der OF the gang, who are supposed to be In
Kansas. 1t is expected they will AL be
brought in this week and the stolen horses
recovered, Stroll will be tried before Judge
Norvai Immediately, provided he does not
skip. It Is believed these fellows have been
carrying on this free.handed horse business
Tor two or three years. A large numb r Of
horses both in Kansas and NEBRASKA have
mysteriously disappeared during that tine
and 1t is proposed to ferret the thing out If
possible. The oilers think they have the
key to the mystery.
Ferdinand Arndt, Of Friend, was put under
81, 600 bonds som time since for Threatening
to Kill his devoted wife. Tho co~untyrgourt
convened on Monday last and Arpsrfatled 10